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The Importance of Good Works For Salvation. Salvation is not attained through good works, yet it is not attained without them. Works make one worthy of the deserts of the Blood of Christ. 1. Works are fruits requisite for faith.
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Salvation is not attained through good works, yet it is not attained without them Works make one worthy of the deserts of the Blood of Christ
1. Works are fruits requisite for faith • Living faith must bear fruit, and its fruit is the good works: * Luke 3:8-9 * Matthew 7:19-21 * Acts 26:20 * Titus 3: 8, 14 * James 2:14 * 1 Corinthians 13:2
2. Works are evidence of being born of God * 1 John 2:29 * 1 John 3:9 * John 8:39 * Romans 8:14
3. Judgment Is According To Works • Ecclessiastes 12:14 • Matthew 16:27 • John 5 :28,29 • Revelation 22:12 • Revelation 20:12 • Matthew 25:31-46 • 2 Corinthians 5:10 • 2 Romans 2:5-7 • Galatians 6:7,8 • 1 Peter 1:17
4. Evil Works Lead To Perdition (1) • Romans 6:1-2, 15-16 • Galatians 5:19-21 • Ephesians 5:5-6 • 1 Corinthians 6: 9-10 • Hebrews 13:4 • Hebrews 10:26,27,29-31 • Colossians 3:5-6 • 2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 • Titus 1:16
4. Evil Works Lead To Perdition (2) • 2 Peter 2:4-22 • 1 Peter 4:17,18 • Revelation 21:8 • Matthew 7: 21-23 • Luke 13:3 • Luke 13:24-28
5.Walking in the light leads to fellowship and cleansing from sin • “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleans us from all sin” 1 John 1:6-7
6. Good works are a sign of love and abiding in Christ • 2 John 6 • 1 John 2:6 • 1 John 5:3 • John 14:21 • Matthew 12:50